Research and Teaching Interests

French and Francophone 20th and 21st century literature, culture and film

Representations of the Occupation (WWII)

War

Autobiography

Minorities in France

Feminist issues

Biography

Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood's teaching and research center around societal, feminist and human rights issues in France and the Francophone world but also in Arab countries and Iran. She explores these through current events and through literature and film. War is also on her research agenda. Obajtek-Kirkwood is now working on a manuscript dealing with Patrick Modiano's first three novels describing the German Occupation of France during WWII.

Selected Publications

Le Monde on a 'likely' Iraq War. In The 33rd, An Anthology. College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University, August 2010.